The Arizona Growler

November 21, 2006

Yowza! Board of Regents wants $130 tech fee (up from $65)

Posted by Garrett P. O'Hara
Filed under: I'm too lazy to uncheck this category., ASUA, taxes / fees

The Arizona Board of Regents apparently wants to increase the new mandatory student technology fee from $65/yr to $130/yr.  The fee appeared to have slipped under our noses last year, but this proposed increase appears to be meeting some opposition.

Two ASUA senators have set up StopTheFee.org and a cooresponding Facebook group in order to organize opposition against the fee, which is expected to be voted upon on November 30th.

Expect more blogging (or maybe a podcast) within the week if I’m not too stuffed.  The pre-Thanksgiving influx of papers and presentations is officially over.




August 26, 2006

Get your dollar back

Posted by Garrett P. O'Hara
Filed under: taxes / fees, ASA

If you’re a student at a state university in Arizona, today’s a great day to earn back one dollar of your own money.  Get it back from ASA.




August 24, 2006

ASUA should pay for its space

Posted by Garrett P. O'Hara
Filed under: Arizona Student Unions, ASUA, taxes / fees

Today’s Wildcat notes that Arizona Student Unions is still in financial trouble, despite having increased food prices by five percent.

First off, I have no clue where they’re getting these numbers.  It’s only four days into the fall semester, and you’ve already made an accurate calculation of revenue?

Secondly, what doesn’t get brought up is at least one thing that they’ve been doing for free for a very long time.  According to my sources at ASUA, ASUA doesn’t pay any money for its office spaces within the union facility (do correct me in the comments if I’m incorrect).  If ASUA expects to have any leverage in keeping the prices down, they’d better know that trying to control the prices of an organization that’s giving them something for free isn’t going to be effective.

Perhaps helping the union out a bit would be less of a waste of money than funding Iraq the Vote and the Women’s Resource Center (see next post). 




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